Algebra

From April 1999 Notices of the AMS, announcing that the author was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for his many mathematics books: &quote;Lang's Algebra changed the way graduate algebra is taught, retaining classical topics but introducing language and ways of thinking from category theory and homological algebra. It has affected all subsequent graduate-level algebra books.&quote;From MathSciNet's review of the first edition:&quote;The author has an impressive knack for presenting the important and interesting ideas of algebra in just the &quote;right&quote; way, and he never gets bogged down in the dry formalism which pervades some parts of algebra.&quote;This book is intended as a basic text for a one-year course in Algebra at the graduate level, or as a useful reference for mathematicians and professionals who use higher-level algebra. This book successfully addresses all of the basic concepts of algebra. For the new edition, the author has added exercises and made numerous corrections to the text.